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J. B. Priestley. Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams
Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams
Table of Contents
TALES
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVERYONE
A MOVING STORY OF REAL LIFE
THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF A QUARREL BETWEEN A MAN WE ALL KNOW AND A VERY OLD FAMILY
AT THE ‘RED LION,’ RAMPLE STREET
THE DANGER OF ACCEPTING GIFTS WHILE HOLDING MUNICIPAL OFFICE
THE HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE OF A FORGOTTEN GOD
HOW THE RATIONAL AMUSEMENTS OF THE GREAT ARE LIMITED
THE IMPRUDENCE OF A POLITICIAN IN TRAVELLING FURTHER THAN THE NEWSPAPERS
THE WRONG WORLD
THE VALUE OF A NEW POINT OF VIEW
THE UNINVITED GUEST
HOW I MET WITH A FAMOUS CHARACTER IN A CAFÉ
THE MUTINY
DEATH AND THE FIDDLER
THE COLLEGE OF IMMORTAL FAME
THE LONELY SOUL
THE LOST PATH
THE LAST GLIMPSE OF A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN SOCIETY
ADVANCED THOUGHT AND THE FOOLISH IDLER
THE WONDERFUL VIEW
THE ROOM OF LOST SOULS
THE CYNICISM OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES
THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT
THE MORAL
TRAVESTIES
A DEDICATION FOR THE ‘SHROPSHIRE LAD’ TO ALL THE GRAVEDIGGERS BETWEEN. LUDLOW TOWN AND HUGHLEY
A SONG IN THE MANNER OF MR WALTER DE LA MARE
‘Æ’: THE INEFFABLE SPLENDOUR OF THINGUMBOB
SIR WM WATSON: ON RECEIVING. AN ÉDITION-DE-LUXE OF ELLA. WHEELER WILCOX
PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE THREE BLIND MICE (PERIODS OF EUROPEAN NONSENSE)
MR JAMES STEPHENS: ‘SEUMAS BEG AGAIN’
A LECTURE NOT YET WRITTEN. OR DELIVERED BY. PROFESSOR SIR A. T. QUILLER-COUCH: ON THE DIRECT METHOD
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: NEW STYLE. AS IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE WRITTEN. BY MR LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
THE LATER MANNER OF. MR W. B. YEATS
A SONG: NOT IN THE COLLECTED. POEMS OF MR ALFRED NOYES
FROM A GREAT POLITICAL-BIOGRAPHICAL. DRAMA, ‘BUBB BODINGTON’ NOT YET WRITTEN BY. MR JOHN DRINKWATER
AN EPILOGUE TO ‘TRIVIA’ (With apologies to Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith)
EPIGRAMS
THE OLD MAN AND THE NEWSPAPER
THE STUDENT AND HIS PRELECTORS
THE OPERAS OF MOZART
TO AN INDIFFERENT POET
R. L. STEVENSON
TO CERTAIN MODERN THEORISTS
THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE SHROPSHIRE LAD’
THE POETRY OF MR W. B. YEATS
‘Æ’
TO PROFESSOR G. B. SAINTSBURY
TO THE PRODUCER OF A RECENT LIGHT MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT WHO BOASTED OF ITS COST
THE STOUT IDEALIST
COLERIDGE
TO A DEPARTED GUEST
A VERY OLD MAN
THE SYMPHONY
OF A LADY
